Grassley Calls Obama and Pelosi ‘Intellectually Dishonest’

http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/grassley-calls-obama-pelosi-intellectually-dishonest/


Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, called President Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi “intellectually dishonest” on Tuesday, saying that Democrats were using the flap over end-of-life consultations to divert attention away from health care legislation currently being considered in the House.

The Iowa Republican, while not explicitly mentioning euthanasia or rationing of care, also said that he did not want government policy to “treat life at age 85 different than we do life at 35.” (At a town hall meeting last week in Adel, Iowa, the senator said, “We should not have a government plan that will pull the plug on grandma.”)

Mr. Grassley — a member of the Gang of Six, the group of Senate Finance Committee members most responsible for that panel’s health care bill — told Fox News, “I have had very strong views for about four months during this debate that I’m not going to do anything with the health care bill that puts a government bureaucrat or any government policy making a determination on whether or not we are going to value life at the end of life any more than at age 30 or 20.”
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Grassley is not intellectual but is dishonest

up yours Grassley

:argh:

period.

He has made it abundantly clear he is not negotiating in good faith, and so has been engaged in systematically lying, to his colleagues and to the people of the country, for months now.

Wow

Damned lying moron.

I once saw a couple who were fighting and one of them used the words 'son of a bitch' and was screamed at by the other saying, 'Don't use that fucking language around me' and neither one of them caught it as they continued their fight.

That's what Grassley does. Both sides.

party look pretty bad.

n/t

The only question left is: Is he a hypocrite and liar or is he just that oblivious to his own sh1t?

Yeah, let's make no distinction between a 35-year-old and an 85-year-old. Good thinking there, Sen. Grassley. With a heart transplant, an otherwise healthy 35-year-old might go another 30 or 40 years. Same heart disease diagnosis, an 85-year-old, if he survives having his chest cracked open, might go another two or even five years. But let's invest the same six- or seven-figure procedure in both of them or neither of them.

What the fuck planet do these cynical bastards inhabit that putting forth these sorts of arguments - while calling other people intellectually dishonest - makes sense?